{"id":816395,"date":"2026-03-17T04:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/816395\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:01:42","slug":"new-seahawks-running-back-emanuel-wilson-blessed-to-play-for-childhood-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/816395\/","title":{"rendered":"New Seahawks running back Emanuel Wilson \u2018blessed\u2019 to play for \u2018childhood team\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Shortly after signing with Seattle, Wilson revealed that the Seahawks were his favorite team growing up in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/news\/seahawks-sign-rb-emanuel-wilson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking with Seahawks.com<\/a>, Wilson added, \u201cI was shocked that my agent called me and told me that Seattle was going to offer me a contract. So blessed to be here.\u201d He also said that he\u2019s a \u201cdownhill physical runner and I have a lot of explosiveness in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Evidently, Wilson\u2019s favorite running backs were Shaun Alexander and Marshawn Lynch. Seattle\u2019s got an illustrious history at the running back position, and we can only hope that Wilson plays a part in continuing that tradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to Seattle, Mr. Wilson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortly after signing with Seattle, Wilson revealed that the Seahawks were his favorite team growing up in North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,6545,718,719,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-816395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-free-agency","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks-offseason-news","16":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116242526520187925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}